Welcome to Adventures in Crafting, Cooking, and Couponing! I hope this blog inspires you to get crafty, try new (easy!) recipes, and even embrace the art of couponing! I will be learning right along with you and documenting everything here.

It's pretty impossible to find an inexpensive numeral candle that coordinates with an Auburn football party. I'd seen some folks on Pinterest decorate candles with glitter and sequins. So, I took that inspiration and painted a "1" candle orange and blue and outlined it in white!

I love this timeline that shows our son's growth over the course of one year!

I painted a piece of craft wood (purchased at Hobby Lobby), glued ribbons to the back,

attached photos to the ribbons, then put football stickers (purchased at Hobby Lobby)

on each picture with the coordinating month.

I followed this tutorial (with a little bit of variation) to make a fun high chair banner!

I wanted to do a photo booth, but I wasn't quite sure about the setup. When I saw that the room had a tree in the corner, I thought it'd be fun to roll with toilet paper and turn into Toomer's Corner!

We had a prop box with a shaker, foam fingers, and a football and a hardback football notebook ($1 at Michael's). The frame instructs guests to "GRAB A PROP AND SMILE BIG, THEN LEAVE A NOTE FOR THE BIRTHDAY KID."

I saw a bunch of goal posts online but had no idea how to construct one for a centerpiece. Thankfully, my personal architect (i.e. my husband) knew exactly how to make one (PVC pipes & duct tape)!

I painted a cardboard "1" to look like a football and hot glued it to the goal post. It still needed a little something, so I added two strands of paper garland that I'd made for the windows & photo booth.

I used astroturf (from Lowe's) for the table cover and dollar store vases with football sweatbands around them to hold the silverware.

I wanted all of the food to have a fun football/Auburn name. Surprisingly, I couldn't find a whole lot of ideas online, so I googled "football terms" and decided to come up with my own! Here they are:

This was the start of the food tables. There's a picture of my son in an Auburn frame, this fun WAR EAGLE plaque that my awesome friend Courtney let me borrow, football playing cards (yes, those little footballs are actually playing cards!), hand sanitizer (I covered the bottle with football looking paper), and football plates & napkins (from Costco). Also, I found the orange fabric in the scrap bin at Hobby Lobby for $1.50!